Biden said to have called Netanyahu a ‘bad fucking guy’: Report

US President Joe Biden reportedly called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “bad fucking guy” amid tensions between the two leaders over the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to a report by Politico on Sunday.

Politico cited White House officials on events surrounding Biden’s support for Israel in the war against Hamas and the political backlash with some in his party and amongst voters. 

The report says that Biden has "grown suspicious" of Netanyahu as the war continues, and says that Biden's fear is that "Netanyahu is eager to drag the US into a wider war in the Middle East."

Biden's spokesman Andrew Bates denied the report, replying that "the president did not say that, nor would he," and added that Biden and Netanyahu have "a decades-long relationship that is respectful in public and in private".